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Show THE INTERIOR. OF THE EARTH. We suppose that Professor David Forbes, of England, knows as much about the interior of the earth as any man living. In a late lecture he insisted insist-ed that all the objections brought by geology, mathematics or astronomy against the old theory that the earth is a molten mass, surrounded by a crust about fifty miles thick, are quite untenable. un-tenable. He would have us believe, whde the outer layer of melted matter, mat-ter, just below the earth's crust, may be a kind of glassy slag, that, not far below this laver, a salamander bent on discovery would find the pure molten metals, of which the heaviest gold, platinum, etc. would be at the earth's centre. Very likely the mass of the earth is molten iron; and this view is quite corroborated by the fact that the broken fragments of some disrupted world, which, in the form of icrolites, are continually falling from the sky, are often metallic iron. But what a tantalizing tan-talizing thought it is that just under our tcet are countless tons of the precious pre-cious metals, only waiting for John Whopper to let us know the route by which he passed through to California. ScriOncrsfur May. |